Forum 70 Special Presentations & Winners

AHS
International Announces Forum 70 Special Presentations and Award Winners

Alexandria,
Virginia, April 16, 2014 – AHS
International – The Vertical Flight
Technical Society – today announced the line-up of special speakers for its
70th Annual Forum & Technology Display at the Palais des congrès de
Montréal, Québec, Canada, May 20-22, 2014. The AHS Annual Forum is the world’s
oldest and largest conference on vertical flight technology.

The Opening General Session, held on Tuesday, May 20 at 1:30 pm will feature a
Keynote Address by Brigadier-General Christian Drouin, Deputy Commander Force
Generation, Royal Canadian Air Force. This will be followed by the annual
interactive CEO Panel addressing the theme of Forum 70: “Celebrating
International Cooperation in Vertical Flight Technology.” This panel will be
moderated by Kenneth Swartz of Vertical
magazine and feature leaders of the world’s largest helicopter
manufacturers:

Daniele
Romiti, CEO – AgustaWestland

Jean-Brice
Dumont, CTO – Airbus Helicopters

John
Garrison, CEO – Bell Helicopter Textron

David
Koopersmith, VP/GM Vertical Lift – Boeing Military Aircraft

Mark
Miller, VP Engineering – Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation

The Opening General Session will then be concluded with the 34th Annual
Alexander A. Nikolsky Honorary Lecture, “Unified Approach for Accurate and
Efficient Modeling of Composite Rotor Blade Dynamics,” given by Prof. Dewey
Hodges of the Georgia Institute of Technology.

U.S. military leaders will provide updates and insights into the latest development,
procurement and upgrade plans in two sessions (note: due to US government
travel restrictions, most presenters will be speaking via video connection). A
special session featuring US Army
Aviation Program Manager Briefings will begin at 8:00 am on Tuesday, May 20
will be facilitated by Mr. Randy L. Robinson, S&T Program Manager, PEO
Aviation:

Brig.
Gen. Robert Marion, Program Executive Officer (PEO) for Aviation

Col.
Jeffrey Hager, PM-Apache Attack

Col.
Rob Barrie, PM-Cargo

Col.
Thomas Todd, PM-Utility

Col.
Tim Baxter, PM-Unmanned Air Systems (UAS)

Col.
Jim Brashear, PM-Non-Standard Rotary Wing

Mr.
Rod Bellows, Dep. PM-Aviation Systems

Mr.
Dan Bailey, PD-Future Vertical Lift (FVL)

A
special session featuring US Navy/Marine
Corps Aviation Program Manager Briefings will begin at 8:00 am on
Wednesday, May 21 and will be facilitated by Aerospace/Defense consultant and former
AHS International Executive Director, M.E. Rhett Flater. The speakers are:

A
number of technical presentations of special award winners will also be given
at Forum 70, as listed below:

The Ian Cheeseman Award, given to the best paper at the 2013
European Rotorcraft Forum, “Adverse Rotorcraft-Pilot Couplings – Modelling and
Prediction of Rigid Body RPC,” by Marilena Pavel and Deniz Yilmaz, Delft
University of Technology; Binh Dang Vu, ONERA; Michael Jump, Linghai Lu and
Michael Jones, University of Liverpool, will be presented at 8:00 am on
Thursday, May 22.

TheGraduate Winners of the 2013 Student Design Competition, the team
from the University of Maryland, will present their concept for a high speed
vertical flight rescue aircraft dubbed “HeliX” at 8:30 am on Thursday, May 22.

TheUndergraduate Winners of the 2013 Student Design Competition, the
team from The Pennsylvania State University, will brief their concept, the “Griffin”
at 9:00 am on Thursday, May 22.

Igor I. Sikorsky Human Powered
Helicopter Competition
winners Dr. Todd Reichert, and Cameron Robertson, of AeroVelo Inc. will present
their paper, “Design and Development of the Atlas HPH,” at 10:15 a.m. on
Thursday, May 22.

2014 Robert L. Lichten Award
Runner-Up Eric
Villeneuve of the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi will present his paper, “Piezoelectric
De-Icing Systems for Rotorcraft” at 1:30 pm on Thursday, May 22. The Lichten
Award Competition is held annually among the 10 AHS International Regions and awarded
to first-time presenters.

2014 Robert L. Lichten Award
Winner Raymond
Beale of Sikorsky Aircraft will present his paper, “Applications of Virtual
Monitoring of Loads to Engineering Decision Making,” at 2:30 pm on Thursday,
May 22.

In addition, the prestigious AHS International
Awards Program will recognize the extraordinary achievements and contributions
of the very best of the technical and operating communities at the 70th
Annual Grand Awards Banquet at 7:00 pm on Wednesday evening, May 21. More than
two dozen awards will be presented.

Also
presented at the Grand Awards Banquet are the AHS International Membership
Awards:

Individual Sponsor Contest: The member who sponsors the
greatest number of new members during the contest year wins free registration
for the individual and a guest at the AHS Annual Forum. This year’s winner is Mick
Maurer, President of Sikorsky Aircraft, who sponsored 21 new members over the
past year.

Chapter Member Increase Contest: This awarded is given to the
AHS Chapter with the greatest net growth at the end of the contest period. The Southwest
Chapter, based in Ft. Worth, Texas, won with 150 new members.

Chapter Percent Increase Contest: First place is awarded to the
AHS Chapter with the greatest percent increase at the end of the contest
period. The East New England, based in Lynn, Massachusetts, won with a 65%
member increase.

Every-Member-Get-A-Member Contest: First place is presented to the
Chapter whose members sponsor the most new members during the contest period. The
Chapter receives one credit for each Chapter member who sponsors a new member. The
Philadelphia Chapter is the winner, with 18 of its members sponsoring new
members.

These
membership contests are an important way that AHS International members reach
out to attract new members. AHS membership has increased by nearly 6% over the
past year.

AHS
International – The Vertical Flight
Technical Society – has 6,500 members in more than 40 countries and is the
world’s leading technical society dedicated to the advancement of vertical
flight technology and its applications. More information about the AHS
International 70th Annual Forum & Technology Display is available at www.vtol.org/forum.